MISSIONS  NEEDFUL 


TO  THE 


HIGHER  BLESSEDNESS  OF  THE 
CHURCHES. 


A DISCOURSE 

AT  THE  ANNIVERSARY  OF  TnE  SOCIETY  OF  INQUIRY  OF 
THE  UNION  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 


ON  SABBATH  EVENING,  MAT  4,  1856. 


B Y 

WILLIAM  R.  WILLIAMS. 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED 


FOR  THE 

HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES. 


“ AND  TO  REMEMBER  THE  WORDS  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS 

HOW  HE  SAID:  IT  IS  MORE  BLESSED  TO  GIVE  TUAN  TO  RE- 
CEIVE.”— ACTS,  XX  35. 

These  words  of  the  Redeemer  do  not  ap- 
pear in  aDy  of  the  Gospels.  All  the  dis- 
courses and  acts  of  Christ,  if  recorded,  would 
form,  as  John  tells  us,  a vast  library,  such  as 
the  Church  would  find  it  difficult  to  copy  or 
to  distribute,  and  which  the  world  would  be 
loth  to  receive,  and  the  convert  even  be  un- 
able to  study  and  to  wield.  Every  utterance 
of  those  divine  lips  was  wise  and  gracious. 
Each  such  sentence,  had  it  been  registered, 
would  have  deserved  to  receive,  and  it  would 
have  received,  the  adoring  homage  of  good 
men.  But  the  Saviour  habitually  exempli- 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


fied  the  very  sentiment  that  He  here  enun- 
ciates, by  giving  without  caring  in  turn  to 
receive — by  giving  much  of  instruction  that, 
as  He  knew,  would  miss  the  long  recollection 
and  the  large  gratitude  which  it  merited  to 
obtain  from  our  race.  It  was  truth,  for  the 
hour  and  scene  most  timely  and  most  fitting ; 
but  having  accomplished  that  present  pur- 
pose, He,  our  Great  Teacher,  flung  it  freely 
forth,  with  a profuse  munificence,  to  receive 
in  men’s  after  commemoration  of  it  no  ade- 
quate honors.  The  seed,  which  this  Great 
Sower  scattered,  went  forth  much  of  it  upon 
the  way-side,  and  fell  on  earth’s  stony  places  ; 
to  be  choked  and  supplanted  in  the  mind  of 
many  a hearer  by  the  next  gossip  of  their 
native  village,  and  by  their  next  chaffering 
in  the  market-place  or  at  the  way-side  inn. 
But  what  of  His  teachings  was  needful  for  all 
times  He  caused  to  be  harvested  into  the  gos- 
pels, by  gleanings  from  “ the  good  ground,” 
— the  retentive  heart,  and  the  inspired  mem- 


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orj  of  Ilis  apostles.  And  thus,  even  in  His 
own  discourses  of  matchless  wisdom  and 
majesty,  He  delighted  to  “ give”  more  than 
He  was  ever  to  “receive” — to  communicate 
with  a Godlike  lavishness  very  much  that  man 
would  foil  aright  to  value,  or  for  any  long 
time  to  remember. 

This  saying  is  recorded  as  having  been  ad- 
duced  by  Paul  on  an  occasion  that  illustrates 
how  a saintly  generosity,  in  endeavor  and  in 
sacrifice  for  the  good  of  others,  is  to  be  sus- 
tained by  a wise  parsimony  in  the  use  of  time. 
He  is  on  his  hurried  way  to  Jerusalem.  Eph- 
esus is  near  his  path,  but  he  can  not  pause 
there.  For  three  years  he  had  taught  the 
Christians  of  that  city  with  a holy  assiduity, 
earning  the  while  his  own  livelihood.  But 
the  having  given  to  them  so  much  of  time 
already  is  not,  in  Paul’s  view,  cause  for  his 
giving  them  no  more.  Yet  duty  to  others 
prevents  his  now  giving  much.  And  onl}' 
keenest  thrift  in  the  employment  of  his  days 
1* 


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allows  liis  expending  any  Lours  upon  them. 
But  Le  can  send  for  tLeir  pastors  to  meet 
Lim  at  Miletus,  some  tLirty-six  miles  away,  in 
a Lurried  interview.  To  tLe  tkree  years 
already  bestowed  of  life,  and  toil,  and  care,  Le 
would  add  this  conference,  intercalated  into  a 
long  and  perilous  journey.  And  into  this 
way-side  homily  of  the  Apostle,  the  Holj- 
Ghost  caused  Lim  to  imbed,  for  the  profiting 
of  the  churches  in  all  after  times,  this  lesson 
of  our  Saviour’s,  that  else  had  disappeared, 
securing  in  Scripture  the  setting  of  a gem 
that  otherwise  might  have  been  irretrievably 
lost.  In  this  sea-side  parting  the  heroic  con- 
fessor and  martyr  of  Christ  reminds  us  what 
had  been  the  Master’s  statement  as  to  the 
Law  of  Happiness.  Paul  had  himself  acted 
upon  it ; and  he  bequeathed  it  to  the  disci- 
ples at  Ephesus  and  to  the  Christians  of  our 
own  time  as  well. 

Man  is  so  formed  as  to  crave,  with  an  in- 
eradicable, and  unappeasable  earnestness,  hap- 


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piness.  It  is  a principle  wrought  iuto  his 
very  being.  Now  blessedness  is  the  term  of 
the  Bible  for  happiness,  as  being  felicity  in 
the  highest  degree,  and  in  its  innermost  real- 
ity. Blessedness  is  Delight  made  sacred.  It 
is  Joy  suffused  and  glorified  with  Devotion. 
It  is  Happiness  as  blended  inseparably  with 
Holiness.  It  is  Pleasure,  as  that  word  is  un- 
derstood upon  the  Delectable  Mountains, 
whose  summits  command  the  vision  of  the 
Shining  City.  It  is  bliss,  such  as  man  had 
before  the  Fall,  when  he  walked  Eden  in  fear- 
less, filial  colloquy  with  his  Maker — such  as 
man  shall  have  again  in  Paradise  after  the 
J udgment  day,  when  having  become  perfect- 
ed in  sanctity  he  shall  be  also  perfect  in  felic- 
ity.  Man,  since  his  apostasy,  would  fain  rive 
asunder  the  happiness  from  the  holiness  ; and 
banish  the  devoutness,  as  inimicM  to  Freedom 
and  Delight.  But  the  will  of  the  Creator  in 
that  matter  will  override  the  insane  and  sui- 
cidal wish  of  the  rebellious  creature.  Eest 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


can  not  be  found  out  of  the  presence  of  the 
God  of  Peace,  and  apart  from  peace  with 
God.  “Thou  hast  made  us  for  Thyself,” 
cried  the  old  church  father,  “ and  we  can  not 
be  at  rest  until  we  have  found  Thee !”  To 
man’s  importunate  cravings  for  repose  and 
joy  Christ  appealed  by  opening  His  Sermon 
on  the  Mount  with  the  traits  of  true  happi- 
ness. In  calling  back  the  race  to  loyalty  and 
bliss,  He,  their  loving  Deliverer,  as  He  flung 
abroad  over  their  necks  His  own  light  yoke, 
taught  them  that  this  yoke  was  made  up  of 
all  the  constituents  of  a genial  and  gracious 
rest.  It  was  as  if  our  Lord  had  said:  “Ye 
would  have  happiness,  learn  its  rudiments. 
Would  ye  be  blessed?  From  me  hear  who 
are  the  blessed  for  all  worlds.  For,  the  rest 
— the  peace — the  joy — the  beatitude — is  in 
these  graces'  which  ye  are  now  invited  to 
learn  and  that  I am  ready  to  impart.”  Wc 
are  accustomed  to  speak  of  the  Beatitudes 
only  as  they  were  delivered  on  a mountain 


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side  in  Galilee,  not  far,  it  may  be,  from 
the  inland  Lake  of  Genuesaret.  Listen  to 
the  echo  of  those  Beatitudes  as  enunciated  by 
the  same  Lord,  but  coming  to  us,  in  our  text, 
from  the  shore  of  the  blue  yEgean  Sea  at  Mi- 
letus. Who  is  there  that  yearns  not  for 
happiness?  It  is  the  child’s  day-dream;  and 
remains,  under  his  wrinkles  and  gray  hairs, 
the  hunger  of  the  old  man’s  heart.  The  En- 
glish poet  Byron,  after  draining  to  the  bitter 
dregs  the  cup  of  worldly  fame  and  revelry, 
spoke  of  himself  as  deeply  moved  by  the  in- 
scription on  an  Italian  tombstone  : “ Implore 
peace !”  He  had  himself  sought  fiery  joy, 
and  now  despaired  of  poor,  tame  peace.  At 
the  feet  of  the  Prince  of  Peace,  where  rest 
was  never  yet  sought  in  vain,  let  us  ponder, 
with  prayer  for  God’s  own  Spirit  to  help  us, 
the  lesson  of  our  text,  as  to  the  sources  and 
safeguards  for  the  happiness  of  His  people. 

I.  And  first,  let  us  dwell  upon  the  senti- 
ment taught ; 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


II.  Next  observing,  how  the  world  ques- 
tions the  principle ; 

III.  But  lastly,  see,  in  the  Foreign  Mis- 
sions of  the  Churches,  the  truth  realized  and 
repeated  anew,  to  win  our  sympathy,  our  be- 
lief and  our  obedience. 

1.  Who  says  this ; and  on  what  authority 
does  the  maxim  come  to  us  ? The  Penta- 
teuch tells  of  the  patriarch's  seeing  the  angels 
of  God  encamped  at  Mahanaim.  But  the 
Bible  makes  no  stay  to  dwell  on  that  vision, 
reserving  its  notice  for  Peniel,  the  spot  where 
the  Maker  and  God  of  the  angelic  host  met 
His  servant.  One  Peniel  outweighs  many 
Mahanaims.  So  should  it  be  with  us  as  to  the 
principles  of  duty  and  of  hope.  And  even 
so,  if  perchance  all  the  sages  of  our  own  race 
and  all  the  intellects  of  angels  be  found 
uniting  in  one  sentiment,  the  whole  embat- 
tled Mahanaim  coalescing  in  their  judgment 
and  unanimous  in  their  deliverance,  yet  to  a 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  11 


devout  thinker  all  this  compacted  authority 
would  be  outweighed  by  an  oracle  proceeding 
from  God  himself.  Teil  me  not  what  Philos- 
ophers saj’,  or  what  codes  of  Legislation  may 
proclaim ; but  tell  me  what  my  Maker,  my 
Euler  and  my  Judge  thinks  as  to  the  duties, 
and  what  lie  purposes  as  to  the  destinies  of 
me,  His  handiwork,  and  me  His  liege  vassal. 
Now,  in  the  New  Testament,  the  Christian 
enjoys  his  Peniel,  a scene  of  direct  conference 
with  his  Maker,  and  where  Heaven  utters  its 
own  fixed  and  perfect  law.  Here  Jehovah 
shows  Ilimself  “ in  the  face”  of  His  own 
Equal  Son  ; and  confers  “ face  to  face”  with 
us  upon  our  needs  and  our  hopes.  In  this 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  we  behold  “ the  brightness 
of  the  Father’s  glory  and  the  express  image 
of  His  person.”  What  is  the  old  Peniel,  aw- 
ful and  glorious  as  its  brief  flash  of  majesty 
really  was,  when  once  compared  with  this 
new,  and  nearer,  and  more  lasting  one  ? 
Here  the  conference  is  prolonged,  and  the 


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access  free,  and  the  fellowship  fraternal.  Out 
of  that  elder  interview  man  came  a halting, 
worshipping  Wrestler:  out  of  this  closer,  lat- 
ter, and  longer  conference,  the  man  comes  a 
forgiven,  cross-bearing  Giver. 

But  not  only  is  God’s  face  seen  in  Jesus  of 
Nazareth ; and  that  Christ  is  not  only  the  mani- 
festation of  the  Father  : He  is  also  the  Com- 
ing Judge  of  quick  and  dead.  At  His  sove- 
reign behest,  the  beatitudes  of  our  own  and 
the  angelic  races  will  be  apportioned.  The 
man  whom  He  blesses  on  that  day  shall  be 
blessed;  and  who  may  reverse  it?  But  the 
man  or  seraph  whom  He  refuses  then  to  bless, 
can  find  in  all  the  wide  universe  neither 
refuge  nor  solace.  All  to  him  will  be  a shore- 
less, homeless,  heaving  deluge  of  despair. 

Such  is  the  authority,  then,  on  which  the 
maxim  before  us  rests.  It  is  announced  as 
an  axiom  by  the  Son  in  whom  the  Father 
showed  himself  to  the  world — that  Son  by 
whom  the  Father  will  judge  all  worlds. 


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2.  The  Father,  we  next  observe,  in  whose 
name  this  Son  spoke,  and  of  whose  nature 
this  the  Only  Begotten  One  partook,  has 
Himself  acted , in  Creation  and  Providence,  ou 
the  principle  of  our  text.  In  the  sense  of  neod«- 
ing  them  and  of  depending  upon  them,  He,, 
the  Infinite  and  the  Blessed,  receives  nothing 
from  all  the  numerous  tenantry  of.  His  wide 
and  populous  universe.  He  gives,  without 
weariness,  without  ceasing,  without  stint ; and 
opening  Ills  hand,  continues  to  satisfy  the 
wants  of  every  living  thing.  And  this  unde- 
rived. this  unbalanced  and  unreciprocated 
giving,  is  the  joy  of  that  Being  who  is  infi- 
nitely and  eternally  Blessed,  ne  addresses 
to  each  being,  in  all  the  shining  ranks  and 
hierarchies  of  Heaven,  the  same  challenge  that- 
His  apostle  makes  to  each  man  of  our  moe  - 
“What  hast  thou  that  thou’  h&sk  no*  re- 
ceived ?”  All  your  mercksy  powers,  and 
enjoyments,  are  boons  obtained  from  Me,  ©p 

loans  intrusted  to. you  by  Me.  I;  the  Fount.- 
2- 


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ain  of  life  and  joy,  give  to  all ; but  who 
claims  to  have  given,  who  can  give  to  Me  ? 
The  joy  and  work,  then,  of  the  Infinitely 
Blessed — the  Only  Potentate — the  Only  Wise 
God — show  that  to  give  is  more  blessed  than 
to  receive. 

3.  The  Human  Nature,  again — the  Incar- 
nation and  Redeeming  Mission  of  this  same 
Lord  Jesus  Christ — presented  a yet  more 
glorious  illustration  of  the  same  principle. 
Uncompelled  and  uncompensated,  unasked 
and  unaided,  ay,  and.  even  altogether  unap- 
preciated, He  left  the  heavens  to  bring  par- 
don and  life  to  man  upon  the  earth.  Not 
that  He,  for  himself,  needed  more  happiness, 
but  that  man  was  sold  else  to  all  unhappiness. 
This  it  was  that  stirred  the  compassion  of 
God,  and  originated  the  ransom  to  be  paid  on 
Calvary.  The  Son  of  Man  came  not  to  ex- 
perience but  to  bestow  kindness — i;  not  to  be 
ministered  unto,  but  to  minister.”  So  loved 
the  Lather  a revolted  world  as  to  give  His 


HAPPINESS  OF  TIIE  CHURCHES.  15 


own  Son  for  them  ; and  so  did  this  Son  love 
that  race — a suicidal,  fratricidal,  and  Deicide 
race  as  it  was — that  lie  yearned  to  give  Him- 
self a ransom  for  them.  Had  man  written 
the  Parable  of  the  Prodigal  Son,  he  would 
have  painted  the  forlorn  spendthrift  as  earn- 
ing, and  so  receiving  a recall.  He  would 
have  portrayed  the  poor  exile  as  scraping 
out  of  the  sale  of  the  husks  saved  from 
the  trough,  and  hoarding  out  of  his  scanty 
wages  as  swineherd  in  the  far  and  strange 
land,  the  sum  necessary  to  buy  back  the 
father’s  property  that  had  been  squandered  ; 
and  so  reinstating  himself  under  the  parental 
roof  by  a reformation  of  his  own  achieving 
and  a restitution  of  his  own  winning.  But  as 
the  fact  was,  and  as  God  painted  the  fact,  it 
is  the  Father  that  graciously  cancels  the  fault, 
and  sees  the  prodigal  in  his  forlorn  and  pen- 
niless destitution,  in  his  blushes  and  in  his 
tatters,  and  runs  to  foil  in  forgiveness  on  the 
penitent’s  neck.  The  Godhead  incarnates 


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itself  to  sink  down,  in  the  free  boon  of  par- 
don, on  the  bosom  and  heart  of  our  degraded 
humanity.  His  native  Divinity  was  compe- 
tent for  miracles  of  bodily  healing  ; but  more 
was  needed  for  His  wonders  of  healing  to  the 
sin-stricken  soul.  The  touch  of  His  hem  was 
enough  to  stanch  the  blood  of  the  invalid  for 
so  many  years  a sufferer.  But  to  send  life 
into  the  soul,  it  was  needed  that  this  hem 
should  be  moist  from  the  sacrifice  of  Calvary 
— that  His  raiment  should  become,  as  the 
Apocalypse  describes  it,  “ a vesture  dipped 
in  blood,”  and  that  the  blood  of  its  own  Di- 
vine wearer,  the  flow  of  His  own  rent  veins, 
and  the  outgush  of  His  own  broken  heart. 
His  word  and  His  glance  could,  at  any  mo- 
ment, create  a world,  or  call  a whole  system 
of  worlds  to  flash  at  once  into  being.  But 
more  than  look  or  voice  of  God — His  own 
death — was  needed  to  ransom  a world.  And 
so  He  emptied  Himself  of  His  proper  and 
hereditary  glory,  and  was  found  in  fashion 


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as  a man.  lie  “ gave” — in  Ilis  own  language, 
as  put  into  the  mouth  of  one  of  His  own 
prophets — “ gave  (Ilis)  back  to  the  smiters 
and  (His)  checks  to  them  that  plucked  off  the 
hair,  and  hid  not  (Ilis)  face  from  spitting.”* 
And  for  the  joy  that  was  set  before  Him,  in 
bestowing  upon  us,  at  such  a cost,  a free  for- 
giveness, “ He  endured  the  cross,  despising 
the  shame.” 

4.  And  He  has  renewed  the  echo  and  image 
of  His  own  free  sufferings,  in  the  sacrifices  that 
His  people  have  incurred  and  that  they  have 
welcomed  fior  His  sake , and  only  in  His 
strength.  As  Satan  was  “ a murderer  of  men 
from  the  beginning,”  receiving  and  exacting 
the  life  that  he,  the  Destroyer,  never  could 
have  given,  so  Christ  has  been— in  His  in- 
spiration of  disinterestedness  within  His  own 
servants,  in  His  sympathy  with  their  labors 
of  self-renouncing  charity,  and  in  His  per- 
petual Headship  over  that  body,  the  Church, 

* Isaiah,  I.  6. 
o* 


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of  which  charity  is  the  life  and  bond — He, 
Christ,  has  been  a Sufferer,  murdered  of 
men  from  the  beginning.  "Well  did  He  know 
that,  from  the  first  to  the  last,  His  victories, 
both  in  His  own  person  and  in  the  persons 
of  His  living  and  faithful  members,  must  be 
those  of  heroic,  gracious,  and  unappreciated 
endurance.  As,  even  after  the  Ascension  of 
Jesus,  Paul  filled  up  the  measure  of  the  afflic- 
tions of  Christ  which  was  behind,*  so  the 
patriarchal  confessors  filled  up  the  afflictions 
of  Christ  which  were  before — preceding  and 
in  advance  of  their  Master’s  advent.  Not  by 
any  means  in  the  sense  of  merit  and  of  aton- 
ing efficacy  claimed  for  themselves,  did 
Christ’s  forerunners  or  Ilis  successors  thus 
round  His  testimony ; but  in  the  sense  merely 
of  reflecting  over  all  dispensations  the  light 
of  nis  grace,  and  flinging  back  from  the  saints 
of  all  ages  the  lustre  and  the  spirit  of  that  one 
Sacrifice  and  one  Salvation,  in  whose  light 


* Colossians,  i.  24. 


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they  saw  light,  in  whose  love  they  learned 
love,  and  in  whose  life  they  imbibed  life. 
And  thus,  in  His  own  spirit  and  temper 
coursing  through  all  the  veins  of  his  mystical 
body,  Christ  has  been,  from  the  first  genera- 
tion of  revolters,  and  in  his  murdered  servant 
Abel,  to  the  times  of  Zacharias,  and  Stephen, 
and  Antipas,  “ His  faithful  martyr,”  down 
through  all  His  persecuted  aud  martyred  con- 
fessors to  the  end  of  time,  “ giving"  Himself 
to  be  the  hunted,  rejected,  and  slaughtered 
Victim  of  the  race  that  He  .came  to  enfran- 
chise and  to  sanctify. 

And  the  experience  of  Christ’s  people,  im- 
bued with  His  Spirit,  has  found  this  obedience 
to  the  principle  before  us  not  only  tolerable, 
but  delightful ; not  only  more  excellent,  but 
more  full  of  enjoyment.  The  yoke  has  not 
galled  the  shoulder  : nor  has  the  burden,  even 
when  it  not  only  bowed  but  plowed  the  back, 
and  let  out  the  life,  been  other  than  glad  to 
the  regenerate  heart.  Having  Christ  given  to 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


them,  they  give  themselves  to  the  Lord,  and 
to  His  Church,  and  cause,  and  work,  by  the 
will  of  the  Lord.  Love,  free  and  joyous,  be- 
comes the  master  principle  of  their  obedience. 
It  shouts  from  the  midnight  stocks  in  the 
dungeon  at  Philippi,  where  this  Paul  with 
Silas  lay  bound  for  Christ’s  sake.  It  bright- 
ens into  exultation  the  offering  of  Paul’s  life, 
when  poured  out  as  a libation  on  the  sacrifice 
and  service  of  the  faith  of  the  churches. 
Hear  the  apostle  proclaim  his  own  impulses 
in  all  his  fervid  and  untiring  activity  : “ The 
love  of  Christ  constraineth  us.” 

And  so  to  give,  they  have  found  blessed 
not  only  as  delighting,  but  as  ennobling 
them,  by  giving  elevation  to  the  character 
and  breadth  to  their  views,  and  wide  expans- 
iveness to  then’  sympathies.  Finding  their 
incentive,  and  their  Exemplar  in  the  All-suf- 
ficing and  Unchanging  God,  their  labors  are 
not  to  be  checked  by  temporary  reverses,  nor 
their  affections  to  be  chilled  by  man’s  persist- 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES. 


21 


ent  ingratitude.  Their  nature  has  been  ex- 
alted by  thus  lifting  itself  out  of  the  rut  of 
mere  Precedent,  and  soaring  out  of  the  nar- 
row dungeon  of  Self,  and  above  the  circum- 
scribed fence  of  Fashion,  into  the  Illimitable 
love  of  the  Unforgetting  and  Unchanging  Je- 
hovah. Even  in  the  physical  world,  it  is  hard 
to  obtain  an}'  extended  field  of  vision  by 
looking  around  or  below.  It  is  won  only  by 
lifting  the  eye  upward,  and  looking  above  and 
off  from  our  tiny  planet.  A man  can  see  far 
only  as  he  looks  up.  In  the  clear  day,  lie 
sees  in  that  direction  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
miles  all  the  way  to  the  sun.  In  the  bright, 
starlit  night,  he  sees  to  the  fixed  stars  myriads 
of  myriads  of  miles  beyond  the  sun  even. 
The  Christian  finds  it  the  same  in  the  moral 
world.  To  God  and  to  the  revelation  that 
He  has  made  in  His  Sou,  and  in  the  book  and 
the  cross  of  that  Son,  must  darkling  man  look 
up,  if  he  would  discern  afar  off,  either  as  to  the 
old  past,  or  as  to  the  far  future.  Let  him,  for 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


knowledge,  or  feeling,  or  incentives  to  ener- 
gy, look  elsewhere : and  he  is  soon  dejected. 
His  horizon  is  a cribbed  and  restricted  one. 
Looking  only  inward  to  his  own  heart  and 
intellect ; or  looking  around  to  his  fellows,  to 
schools,  and  to  libraries ; or  looking  below, 
into  mines  and  strata,  and  sea-deeps,  and  To- 
phet,  his  view  is  of  necessity  narrow,  and  cir- 
cumscribed, and  cheerless.  But  lifting  his 
eye  upward,  what  upper  deeps  of  unsearcha- 
ble wisdom  and  exhaustless  goodness — what 
life-giving  warmth  from  the  unsetting  Sun  of 
Righteousness,  risen  on  the  soul  with  healing 
in  His  wings,  does  the  believer  find.  His 
purpose,  with  the  Psalmist’s,  becomes  hence- 
forward this:  “I  will  lift  up  mine  eyes  to  the 
hills,  from  whence  cometh  my  help.  My 
help  cometh  from  the  Lord,  which  made 
heaven  and  earth.”  And  thus  going  out  of 
the  finite,  to  the  Infinite,  and  rising  from  the 
creature  to  its  Author,  and  thus  breaking 
the  bounds  of  earth,  and  sense,  and  time,  to 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHUltCHES.  23 


lay  hold  on  the  Boundless  One  the  Omni- 
present and  the  Eternal,  man— regenerate 
man,  learns  from  God  the  joy  of  giving,  and 
the  wisdom  of  giving,  and  the  excellence  of 
giving,  and  the  necessity  of  giving.  Then  it 
becomes  not  merely  a law,  but  a law  of  liberty , 
knocking  off  from  the  heart  its  old  encase- 
ments and  fetters — not  merely  its  love,  but 
its  law  of  love,  a delight  made  into  principle, 
habit,  and  statute : it  becomes  its  law  of  lib- 
erty, and  its  law  of  love,  with  the  soul  renewed 
and  grafted  into  Christ,  to  do  good  unto  all 
men  as  he  shall  have  opportunity,  hoping  for 
nothing  again.  Vivified  by  union  with  a 
Loving,  and  Self-denying  Head,  the  church 
becomes  instinct  with  a love  that  denies  self. 
Then  she  learns,  with  a meek,  boastless  pro- 
fusion, to  pour  out — not  for  the  world’s  grati- 
tude or  applause,  but  for  her  own  Lord’s  sake 
and  for  her  own  sake — the  steady  beams  and 
streamings  of  that  reflected  brightness,  which 


24 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


she  has  caught  from  her  Redeemer,  the  Sun 
of  her  Righteousness. 

II.  And  yet,  established  as  the  truth  is  by 
the  testimony  of  that  True  and  Faithful  Wit- 
ness, who  is  the  manifestation  of  the  Father 
and  is  to  be  the  Judge  of  the  race  ; confirmed 
as  it  is  by  the  work  of  God  in  creation  and 
providence  ; illustrated  and  commended  as  it 
has  been  by  the  Mission  of  Christ  himself  in 
Redemption  ; and  re  enforced  as  it  is  by  the 
experience  of  His  Church  as  conformed  to 
Him  her  self-renouncing  Lord,  the  WORLD, 
NEVERTHELESS,  IS  DAILY  AND  GRAVELY  DIS- 
PUTING THE  PRINCIPLE. 

Ask  the  wiser  and  subtler  statesmen  of  our 
race,  and  the  keen-eyed  observers  who  have 
known  most  of  mankind,  what  is  their  judg- 
ment as  to  the  source  of  happiness.  Intrust 
the  Richelieus  and  the  Walpoles,  the  Machia- 
vels,  the  Chesterfields,  and  the  Talleyrands, 
who  were  thought  best  to  read  human  nature, 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CIU'ROHES.  25 


its  favorite  desires,  and  the  springs  whose 
touch  soonest  swayed  it — intrust  these  shrewd 
and  practiced  men  with  the  work  of  condens- 
ing their  experience  of  society  into  maxims 
for  the  pursuit  of  happiness.  Ask  from  their 
hands  digests  of  the  world’s  best  precedents, 
and  condensations  of  its  most  solemn  and 
repeated  adjudications.  What  would  their 
beatitudes  be  ? 

Avarice  would  say  : “ Eeceive  as  much  as 
decently  you  may,  and  give  as  little  as  you 
well  can.  This  will  insure  the  blessedness  of 
wealth,  and  money  answereth  all  things.” 
Selfishness  would  cry  : “ Guard  and  even  ex- 
aggerate your  own  rights ; let  others,  your 
neighbors,  look  to  their  own.  Each  for  him- 
self. The  merciful  and  the  meek  are  likely 
to  be  sorely  pillaged  and  rudely  jostled  in  the 
world’s  fierce  throng.”  Craft  would  exclaim  : 
“ Keep,  with  the  open  look  and  the  courtly 
word,  the  close  thought.  To  seem  is  indis- 
pensable : to  be,  is  matter  of  indifference. 

3 


26 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


When  yourself  bound  to  others,  let  it  be  with 
cords  of  flax  ; when  others  are  to  be  bound 
to  you,  use  links  of  steel.”  Ambition  would 
say  : “ Blessed  are  the  lofty  in  spirit  and  the 
quick  in  resentment.  None  harms  them  and 
is  himself  left  unharmed.  For  to  such  is  the 
empire  of  the  world.” 

And  when  they  have  collated  their  results 
and  completed  their  task,  read  to  them  the 
opening  sentences  of  the  Sermon  on  the 
Mount,  and  quote  to  them  from  our  text 
Paul's  quotation  from  his  Master,  “ Blessed 
are  the  poor  in  spirit,  the  merciful,  the  perse- 
cuted, the  peace-makers,  and  the  pure  in  heart. 
Theirs  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven  ; and  they 
see  God.  More  blessed  are  they  giving  than 
receiving.”  Your  hearers  and  yourselves  see 
at  once  the  harsh  dissonance.  The  beatitudes 
of  earth’s  sages  and  the  beatitudes  of  the  Only 
Wise  God,  the  One  Redeemer  and  Judge  of 
the  world,  are  found  to  be  two  codes  of  very 
distinct  and  uncongenial  character. 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  27 


And,  whether  conservative  or  progressive, 
traditionists  or  revolutionists,  the  men  who 
are  of  opposite  schools  as  to  social  order  and 
as  to  national  government,  are  too  readily 
agreed,  like  Uerod  the  Idumasan,  and  Pilate 
the  Roman,  in  scouting  Jesus,  and  what  seems 
to  them  His  creeping  philosophy.  The  fan- 
atical Conservative  cries : “ Whatever  is, 
is  right  !”  and  thus  worships  Decay  as  well 
as  Life,  and  throws  upon  God,  the  Holy,  the 
parentage  and  dishonor  of  Satan’s  interpola- 
tions and  blots  cast  upon  God’s  good  handi- 
work. And,  on  the  opposite  side,  the  fanat- 
ical Progressive  shouts : “ Whatever  is,  is 
wrong  !”  virtually  swelling  thus  the  cry  and 
the  train  of  the  old  Anarch,  Satan,  and  im- 
peaching Jehovah’s  past  and  present  govern- 
ment of  His  own  universe  as  a failure  and  a 
pretense.  Take  the  beatitudes  of  either  class, 
and  you  wrong  }*our  own  nature  and  dishonor 
God’s  good  providence.  The  one  class,  as 
they  regard  the  heathen,  will  tell  you  that  the 


28 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


Pagan  is  very  gentle,  and  happy,  and  vir- 
tuous, and  needs  not  to  be  Christianized  ; or 
that  he  is  an  irreclaimable  brute  not  to  be 
converted,  and  whose  strange  vileness  should 
not  discompose  your  cultured  ease.  The 
other  class  would  persuade  you  that  it  is 
Christendom  itself  that  is  all  wrong  and  heart- 
less ; and  that  Christianity  needs  recasting,  or 
is  “ a religion  of  old  clothes,”  deserving  to  be 
rejected,  in  mass  and  at  once,  as  a spent  delu- 
sion. Their  mission  is  to  convert  Christianity 
into  Pantheism,  and  to  evaporate  the  Re- 
deemer into  a nvyth. 

And  both  classes  will  be  found  uniting  in 
the  general  conclusion,  that  Christian  Mis- 
sions are  most  commonly  but  a waste  of  ef- 
forts, and  time,  and  funds ; and  that  the  men 
and  women  who  go  forth  from  the  lands  of 
Christian  security,  and  order,  and  purity,  and 
freedom,  and  peace,  to  the  idolater,  perchance 
at  the  antipodes,  seeking  his  conversion  to 

Christ,  are  the  best  of  them  but  well-meaning 

* 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  29 


dreamers,  and  far  oftener  meddlesome  fanatics 
or  even  deliberate  cheats.  Yet  let  any  man 
for  himself  examine  the  full  record  of  what 
Christian  Missions  have  been,  and  of  what 
Christian  Missionaries  have  given  and  have 
accomplished  ; and  then  let  such  an  inquirer 
turn  to  some  pages  of  our  contemporary  lit- 
erature, the  authors  of  which  would  resent 
the  imputation  of  positive  inhumanity  or  of 
shameless  skepticism,  and  how  strange  seems 
the  delineation  these  writers  have  ventured 
to  furnish  of  what,  according  to  them,  Missions 
are  abroad,  and  of  what,  according  to  them, 
the  friends  of  Missions  are  at  home. 

Christ  himself,  the  Chief  Apostle  and  Mis- 
sionary of  our  profession,  complained  of  His 
own  generation  that  they  would  not  receive 
Wisdom  in  any  of  her  varying  moods.  When 

she  used  the  plaintive  reed  of  John  the  Bap- 

• - 

tist,  the  preacher  of  repentance,  they  would 
not  mourn.  He  was  frenzied  or  possessed, 

say  they  : “ Behold,  he  hath  a devil.”  And 
3* 


30 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


when  Wisdom  touched  the  more  cheerful 
stops  of  the  Gospel,  the  world  would  not 
bound  or  leap  to  the  blither  measure.  This 
Christ,  cry  they,  is  no  better  than  we : “ a 
gluttonous  man  and  a wine-bibber.”  False 
Messiahs  they  hailed.  Such  men  brought  the 
world’s  choice  passwords  and  recognized 
tokens,  and  were  welcome.  But  the  true 
Messiah  they  refused  and  crucified.  So  was 
it  with  His  apostles.  Paul,  whose  quotation 
of  his  Master’s  language  furnishes  our  text, 
had  forsworn  rank,  ease,  wealth,  and  power, 
and  the  friendship  of  the  entire  Sanhedrim,  to 
embrace  a career  of  privation  and  reproach, 
travel  and  conflict,  closed  with  the  vista  of 
martyrdom.  In  so  doing  he  had  given  all 
possible  pledges  of  sincerity.  Y et  he  declared 
that,  with  all  his  integrity  and  disinterested- 
ness, he  and  his  fellow-laborers  were  regarded 
as  “ deceivers.”  Deceivers — yet  true,”  he 

calmly  and  with  a noble  brevity  adds ; and 
there  leaves  the  matter. 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  81 

But  when  we  see  what,  in  the  old  East,  and 
in  our  own  new-found  West,  Christian  Mis- 
sions have  attempted,  and  have,  despite  the 
world’s  derision,  achieved  ; and  then  look  to 
the  command  of  Christ,  unqualified  and  unre- 
pealed, for  the  evangelization  of  the  whole 
earth ; and  then  survey  the  vast  mass  of 
Heathen  darkness  yet  to  be  dispelled,  and  of 
Pagan  wretchedness  yet  to  be  relieved;  and 
then  see  how  scanty  as  yet  the  largest  drafts 
made  on  the  forces  of  the  churches  at  home 
for  the  Missionary  battle-field;  and  when,  amid 
all  our  gratulations  and  gratitude  to  man  and 
to  God  for  a growing  liberal  it}’,  and  for  a 
juster  estimate  of  the  work,  we  yet  see  how 
small  are  the  funds  proffered  and  how  few  the 
laborers  enlisted  in  comparison  to  the  magni- 
tude of  the  enterprise ; and  then,  must  see 
these  merest  dribblings  and  tiny  streamlets 
of  sympathy  clogged,  by  the  censures  and 
scoffings  of  men  nominally  Christian,  in  lands 
whose  literature  owes  every  thing  to  Christ’s 


32 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


Gospel,  and  in  nations  whose  liberties  bour- 
geoned out  of  the  Christian  development  of 
conscience,  and  out  of  the  Saviour’s  revelation 
of  our  brotherhood  ; — our  souls  are  often  stir- 
red with  a sad  indignation.  We  are  ready 
to  ask  : Aud  what  right  had  your  old  Pagan 
forefathers  in  the  Son  of  Jesse,  which  the 
modern  Pagan  has  not,  this  very  day,  in  the 
very  same  Redeemer  ? We  are  almost  ready 
to  look  up  and  cr}r : Oh  Lord ! come  down  to 
vindicate  that  missionary  work,  which  was 
Thine  own  parting  legacy  at  Thine  ascension, 
to  the  churches  whom  Thou  leftest  behind. 
Thou  who  didst,  in  ancient  times,  descend  to 
answer  and  hush  the  cavillings  of  thy  servant 
Job  against  thy  Providence — wilt  Thou  not, 
oh  Nazarene  ! come  down  among  us  to  plead 
to  the  indictment  that  men  have  found  against 
this  work  of  evangelizing  the  nations — at- 
tempted at  Thy  bidding — attempted,  against 
all  odds  in  numbers  and  resources,  in  Thy 
strength — attempted  in  love  for  Thy  kingdom 


HAPPINESS  OB'  THE  CHURCHES.  33 


and  in  jealousy  for  Thy  beloved  name  ? 
Come  down,  Man  of  Sorrows ! to  the  woes 
of  a Churcli  hindered,  perplexed,  and  rent, 
in  her  feeble  and  wavering  obedience  to  Thy 
blessed  Commission  ! Come  down,  that  the 
world  may  be  abashed  in  her  resistance  to 
the  march  of  the  cross-bearing  churches  gone 
forth  to  bring  light  to  the  nations  sitting  in 
the  shadow  of  death.  Come  down,  that  Thine 
own  churches  may  be  heartened,  and  recon- 
ciled, and  inspirited  to  a bolder  onset,  and  a 
more  close  and  persistent  siege  upon  the 
strongholds  of  darkness.  Come  down,  that 
Thy  people  may  learn,  in  lowly  trustfulness, 
more  unreservedly  to  bring  their  substance, 
their  prayers,  their  children  and  themselves, 
to  the  great  task  which  Thou  didst  inaugurate 
and  which  we  have  inherited — the  subdual 
of  the  world  to  the  obedience  of  the  faith. 

The  world’s  indictment  says  of'  Thy  mis- 
sionary servants — now  that  they  are  merce- 
nary, living  in  pomp  and  luxury  among 


34 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


heathen  paupers — now,  that  they  are  incom- 
petent, men  who  are  unfit  for  pastorates  at 
home,  but  who  have  episcopates  abroad — 
here,  that  they  are  oppressive,  and  make  their 
island  converts  drudges  and  beasts  of  burden 
— and  there,  that  they  are  morose  and  gloomy, 
denying  to  the  Pagan  his  old,  gleeful  pastimes, 
and  the  hereditary  dances  and  merry-makings 
of  his  nation — now  again,  that  they  are  un- 
truthful, sending  home  exaggerated  accounts 
of  success,  where  their  converts  are  but  a 
score,  and  their  Bibles  are  to  the  new  owners 
but  a mere  jest  and  drug  ; that  they  are  vis- 
ionary and  impracticable,  telling  the  rude 
idolater  of  mysteries  that  he  can  never  com- 
prehend, and  neglecting  civilization,  to  give 
Christianity  first— or  again,  on  the  opposite 
side,  that  they  are  mechanical  aud  secular 
laborers,  neglecting  the  Gospel,  and  busy 
about  the  civilization,  agriculture,  and  trades 
of  their  flock — at  one  time,  that  they  are 
schismatics  transplanting  to  the  world’s  ends 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  35 


the  intricate  varieties  of  the  sects  that  divide 
ug.  at  home — at  another  time,  that  they  neg- 
lect the  exactnesses  of  truth,  and  cultivate  as 
fraternal  a dangerous  assimilation  to  other 
less  pure  communions  than  their  own— that, 
they  are  unscientific,  lagging  far  behind  the 
age,  for  that  Modern  Ethnology  has  found  the 
nations  of  some  mission-fields  inferior  and 
distinct  races,  whom  we  can  not  hope  to  stay 
on  their  way  to  extermination,  as  being  tribes 
but  little  removed  from  the  ape — that,  they  are 
partial  and  unpatriotic,  overlooking  the  pau- 
perism and  vice  at  home,  to  drain  the  sympa- 
thies and  purses  of  the  poor,  for  the  far  bar- 
barian on  the  further  side  of  the  globe — that, 
they  are  wasteful  and  murderous,  squander- 
ing useful  talents,  and  valuable  influence,  and 
untold  treasures,  and  female  loveliness,  and 
manly  enterprise — upon  distant,  and  romantic 
schemes  that  can  not  succeed,  and  that  even 
if  successful,  can  never  repay  the  lavish  ex- 
penditure of  means  and  lives. 


36 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


Such  are  some  of  the  motley  counts  of  the 
indictment.  We  do  not  undertake  to  adjust 
their  internal  janglings,  and  contradictions. 
The  entire  effect  of  the  complaint,  is,  that  it 
is  not  wise  or  right  thus  to  “ give,”  in  the 
outlay  upon  remote  and  chimerical  crusades, 
resources  and  laborers  that  are  needed  at 
home — and  would  “ receive”  more  gratitude 
and  success  there — and  all  this  done,  it  is  said, 
at  the  bidding  of  incompetent,  and  untrust- 
worthy conductors. 

Shall  the  quiet  graves  of  Eliot,  and  of 
Schwartz,  of  Brainerd,  and  Carey  and  Mar- 
tyn,  and  Vanderkemp,  and  Pacalt,  Rhenius, 
and  Judson.  and  Poor,  be  summoned  to  open 
and  send  out  their  sleepers  to  reply  to  this 
impeachment?  Shall  the  excellent  and  de- 
voted women  who,  like  the  beloved  Persis, 
labored  much  in  the  Lord,  and  now  sleep  on 
heathen  shores,  be  called  to  move  before  us, 
in  their  long  and  meek  array  of  sorrows  en- 
dured, and  blessings  won,  and  holy  memories 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  37 

bequeathed  in  the  missionary  work?  We 
might  say : Were  these  such  men  and  women, 
as  the  scorner  has  painted  ; and  left  they  no 
deeper  and  better  mark  on  Heathenism,  than 
is  alleged  ? Or,  going  up  to  earlier  ages, 
shall  Paul  be  asked  to  come  back ; and  revis- 
ing his  epistles,  to  blot  out  thence  the  record 
of  his  own  missionary  toils,  and  to  quench  the 
infectious  example  of  his  own  missionary  de- 
voteduess,  that  have  seemed  to  authorize  the 
modern  undertakings  so  sternly  arraigned? 
No,  my  friends.  The  fault — if  fault  it  be — - 
has  deeper  roots  than  these;  and  claims  a 
higher  patronage  and  parentage — than  apos- 
tle could  give  it.  It  goes  back  of  the  Pe- 
ters, and  the  Johns,  to  the  Author  of  the 
great  missionary  impulse  of  Pentecost.  The 
roots  of  the  wrong — if  such  we  must  count 
it — run  deep  under  the  cross  of  theNazarene. 
His  words,  just  before  His  ascension,  have 
furnished  the  warrant  of  the  Missionary  work. 
— Come  down  then — might  we  not  justly  and 


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MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


in  all  reverence  say  ? come  down,  Nazarene ! 
Brother,  and  Redeemer,  and  Master  ! for  the 
wise  men  of  the  world  have  revised  Thy 
beatitudes,  and  indicted  Thy  laborers,  and 
would  prohibit  the  upbuilding  of  Thy  world- 
wide temple. 

III.  We  reach,  thus,  our  concluding  topic. 
Christ’s  beatitude  of  giving,  as  of  something 
that  is  more  honored,  and  happy,  and  excel- 
lent, than  receiving,  is  the  justification  of 
modern  missions.  And  these  exemplify, 
renew,  and  reinforce  the  old  injunction. 

1.  The  history  of  the  past  gives  us  to  read 
the  duty  of  the  present  and  the  future. 

We  know  not  of  any  one  of  the  counts  of 
the  world’s  present  indictment,  that  might  not 
have  found  some  plausible  equivalent  to  be 
pleaded  in  Paul’s  time,  when  the  proposal  was 
made  to  visit  and  evangelize  the  Briton,  the 
Gaul,  the  German,  the  Northman,  the  Span- 
iard or  the  Thracian,  our  own  Pagan  fore- 


happiness  of  the  churches.  89 

fathers,  the  outlying  subjects  or  borderers  of 
the  old  Roman  Empire.  Then,  as  now,  the 
kingdom  of  God  came  not  with  observation  ; 
and  a Roman  shipmaster  visiting  Cenchrea 
the  port  of  Corinth,  or  touching  while  the 
text  was  uttered  at  Miletus,  might  have  gone 
home,  as  some  shipmasters  now  do  from  the 
land  where  modern  missionaries  toil,  and  have 
reported,  as  they  report,  that  no  signs  were 
seen  in  the  market  or  on  the  quay,  of  the 
efficacy  of  the  missionary’s  labors.  The  gos- 
pel, then  as  now,  was  quiet  as  leaven,  and 
noiseless  as  the  sunbeam  in  its  work.  Then, 
as  now,  the  workmen  were  summoned  by  a 
Voice  which  the  world  could  not  hear,  and 
leaned  on  an  Arm  which  the  world  could  not 
see.  And  the  inference  was  easily  and  prompt- 
ly drawn,  that  the  energy  was  that  of  delusion 
and  fanaticism  : while  apostles  and  neophytes, 
moved  meekly  onward,  with  the  confession, 
Their  Rock  is  not  as  our  Rock,  even  our  ene- 
mies themselves  being  judges.  The  weapons 


40 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


of  our  warfare  are  not  carnal,  but  spiritual,  and 
mighty  through  God  to  the  pulling  down  of 
strongholds.”  But  when  the  church  read  on 
the  despised  cross,  her  ensign,  the  inscription 
Jehovah  Nissi,  the  Lord  is  my  banner ; and 
read  over  the  upper-chamber  or  the  under- 
ground catacomb,  where  a few  poor  Christians 
convened  to  pray,  the  further  inscription  Je- 
novAH  Shammah,  the  Lord  is  there,  the  Gen- 
tile  thought  himself  entitled  to  jest  at  both 
standard  and  captain.  Faith  sees  the  flutter- 
ing of  the  old  ensign,  }’et  unworn  and  un- 
torn, and  reads  over  the  gathering  for  prayer 
the  old  pledge  that  the  Omnipotent  walks  in- 
visibly there.  Then,  as  now,  the  work  was 
first  with  individuals,  and  then  to  reach  the 
masses : not,  as  objectors  would  now  have  it, 
first  with  masses  and  nations,  thus  finally  to 
win  individuals.  Then,  as  now,  there  were 
destitution,  irreligion,  and  crime  in  the  ham- 
lets of  Palestine,  and  in  the  lanes  of  Jerusa- 
lem, while  Jewish  Christians  were  carrying 


happiness  of  the  churches.  41 

the  gospel  to  the  farthest  and  most  barbarous 
borders  of  the  Roman  Empire.  The  scenes 
even  of  Pentecost  left  myriads  still  wretched, 
and  wicked,  in  the  villages,  synagogues,  and 
temple  of  the  Hebrew  people,  and  of  the 
Holy  Land.  Then,  Paul,  if  found  at  his  tent- 
making,  or  met  on  ship-board  while  giving 
directions  to  prevent  the  escape  of  the  sailors 
from  the  wreck,  might  have  been  charged  w'ith 
sinking  his  spiritual  task  into  a merely  me- 
chanical and  artisan  activity,  as  some  modern 
missionaries  now  are  charged.  Then,  as  now, 
nations  were  hostile,  and  slow  to  allow  a com- 
mon descent,  and  recognize  a mutual  brother- 
hood. Then,  as  now,  the  church  kadsckisms, 
and  sects,  and  variances,  and  scandals.  Then, 
as  now,  many  a home  was  left  desolate— and 
many  a choice  gift  lavishly  expended— and 
many  a life  lost  in  carryingout  Christ’s  broad 
and  imperative  commission.  Then,  as  now, 
the  saints  had  their  poor  kindred  and  neigh- 
bors at  home,  as  well  as  their  Pagan  pension- 


42 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOll  THE 


ers  abroad.  Then,  as  now,  the  enterprise 
looked  romantic — chimerical — absurd  — and 
even  impious,  to  the  sages  who  had  never  so 
much  as  heard  whether  there  were  any  Holy 
Ghost — and  to  the  courtiers  who  gathered 
Caesar's  revenues,  and  fluttered  around  Caesar’s 
banquets,  and  watched  Caesar’s  uncertain 
glance,  and  changeful  fancies,  and  had  no  im- 
age of  a hope  or  of  a duty,  apart  from  the 
despot  and  his  throne — and  to  the  philoso- 
phers, who  had  never  been  consulted  by  the 
Infant  of  Bethlehem,  and  by  the  Sufferer  of 
Golgotha,  as  to  the  propriety  of  His  advent, 
and  the  sufficiency  of  His  resources,  and  the 
promise  of  His  success.  And  without  their 
sanction,  could  He  have  the  presumption  to 
hope  for  prosperity  ? 

But  what  was  the  actual  result?  "What 
are  now,  and  here,  and  in  your  civilization, 
and  in  your  literature  aua  in  your  homes,  and 
in  your  handicraft  arts,  and  in  your  political 
immunities — what,  I say,  are  now  the  tangi- 


HAPPINESS  OF  TIIE  CHURCHES.  43 


ble  results  of  that  godliness,  which  then  had 
and  which  yet  keeps  the  promise  of  the  life 
that  now  is,  as  well  as  of  the  life  to  come? 
What  are  now,  North  and  South,  and  East 
and  West,  the  financial  and  legal  and  house- 
hold results  left  behind  in  this  America  of 
the  nineteenth  century,  as  received  by  you 
from  the  gifts  of  prayer,  and  toil,  and  sympa- 
thy, and  wealth,  and  talent,  and  life,  bestowed 
upon  you  by  the  Christians  of  the  first,  and 
succeeding  centuries  ? 

2.  But  you  are  weary  of  the  protracted 
duty  ? Missions  are  to  be  sustained  through 
so  many  years  and  against  so  many  incidental 
embarrassments  and  reverses,  say  you  ? If 
you  refuse  the  performance  of  the  trust  as 
onerous  or  impossible,  then  relinquish  the 
trust  funds  put  for  that  explicit  end  in  your 
keeping.  Give  back  to  the  Master  what  you 
have  received  from  Him.  He  instituted  the 
Christian  Church,  not  to  be  like  the  Jewish, 
merely  a hearth  for  preserving  the  truth ; but 


44 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


as  a light-house  reared  to  diffuse  the  truth. 
For  this  end  was  it  shaped,  and  to  this  pur- 
pose its  site  and  date  were  both  chosen.  Must 
you  refuse  to  give  to  strangers — uncouth  bar- 
barians whom  you  never  saw  ? Then  relin- 
quish what  you  in  an  earlier  age  received  from 
those  who  were  strangers  to  the  blood  of  your 
fathers,  and  from  men  to  whom  your  ances- 
tors seemed  rude  and  forlorn  barbarians. 
You  have  no  special  interest  in  posterity  and 
the  coming  centuries  ? Then  surrender  the 
long  arrears  of  compounded  interest  and  en- 
lightenment and  happiness  that  your  own 
century  has  inherited  from  the  self-sacrificing 
men  who  evangelized  your  ancestry  when  old 
Rome  was  slowly  moldering,  or  had  already 
littered  Europe  with  the  shattered  fragments 
of  her  fall.  You  can  not  work  for  God? 
Then  rise  magnanimously  superior  to  the 
meanness  of  receiving  aught  more  from  God. 
If  the  old  Jehovah  of  Moses,  and  David,  and 
Paul — if  the  Emmanuel,  for  whom  the  Goth 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  45 


and  the  Briton,  your  rude  and  Pagan  fore- 
fathers, dropped  their  grim  idols — the  Em- 
manuel invoked  by  the  confessors  of  the 
Protestant  Reformation  from  the  dungeons 
where  they  pined  and  the  stakes  where  they 
blazed — the  Emmanuel  adored  by  the  Puri- 
tans, who  were  the  foster-fathers  of  your  po- 
litical freedom — the  Emmanuel  served  by 
your  own  Revolutionary  fathers  who  fell  at 
many  a point  in  the  long  agony  of  your 
emancipation — if  the  Lord  God,  True  and 
Mighty,  in  whom  these  your  predecessors 
trusted,  be  not  worth  obeying,  He  certainly 
should  not  be  foraged  upon.  First,  produce 
and  renounce  every  benefit  received  from 
Him  and  His  gospel,  and  His  churches  ; and 
then,  break  off  all  further  dependence  upon 
Him,  and  all  further  deference  to  His  mis- 
sionary statutes. 

And  were  the  Nazarene  to  come  down  and 
ask  you  to  surrender  whatever  you  received 
from  His  old  loyal  servants  in  Puritau,  medi- 


46 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


asval,  or  primitive  times ; were  lie  to  pick  out 
of  the  web  of  our  social  well-beiog  every 
thread  that  Christian  faithfulness  had  in- 
wrought  into  its  texture,  often  wetting  it  in 
the  weaving  with  bitter  tears  and  dripping 
blood — where,  we  ask  it,  were  to-morrow 
your  States,  your  parchment  Constitution,  and 
your  national  union  ? where  your  wealth, 
freedom,  and  national  prosperity  ? It  would 
be  left  a heap  of  tangled  ravellings,  without 
shape,  strength,  or  worth. 

From  interminable  intestine  wars,  constant, 
purposeless,  and  fruitless  as  the  fights  of  kites 
and  crows — from  infanticide — from  mediaeval 
despotism — from  mediaeval  ignorance,  much 
has  this  Gospel  done  to  relieve  you.  And 
having  received  much,  would  you  give  noth- 
ing ? In  God’s  law  and  polity”,  the  talent 
hoarded  becomes  soon  the  talent  forfeited  and 
confiscated.  The  lamp  set  only  under  a 
bushel,  is  not  likely  to  be  replenished  with 
oil  by  the  Great  Head  of  the  Church,  who 


HAPPINESS  OF  TIIE  CHURCHES.  47 


walks  in  wise  supervision  among  her  golden 
candlesticks.  The  man,  the  church,  the  tribe, 
or  the  land  that  would  hold  their  own,  as 
loaned  from  Christ,  must  put  their  talent  to 
usury  for  Christ.  To  give  is  a generous  pro- 
test agaiust  the  besetting  sin  of  selfishness, 
and  a filial  emulation  and  a faint  imitation  of 
the  Divine  Fatherhood  evermore  laying  up 
and  laying  out  for  llis  earthly  children.  It 
is  the  purest  of  happiness  to  see  others  by  us 
made  happy  for  both  worlds.  It  is  the  surest 
and  directest  road  to  national  greatness  and 
national  unity — to  the  removal  of  war,  and 
bondage,  and  pauperism  from  our  world. 

3.  But  the  friends  of  Missions  look  too  far, 
and  overlook  the  near  ? You  are  the  friend 
of  the  poor  at  home?  We  rejoice  to  hear  that 
utterance.  But  as  yet  we  have  known  of  no 
truer  friends  and  fellow -helpers  in  this  your 
good  work — no  more  fast  allies  that  the  poor 
in  Christian  Britain  and  Christian  America 
have  found — than  the  holders  of  Evangelical 


48 


MISSION’S  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


doctrine  and  the  friends  of  Evangelical  Mis- 
sions. John  Howard,  who  guaged  the  prisons 
of  Europe  when  Despotism  sat  at  the  gate 
holding  the  keys,  and  when  Pestilence  cow- 
ered in  the  vaults,  filling  them  with  death  ; 
Elizabeth  Fry;  Nesmith,  the  father  of  City 
Missions ; and,  to  name  living  men,  Lord 
Shaftesbury,  the  patron  of  Ragged  Schools ; 
know  you  of  truer  philanthropists  at  home 
than  these  ? All  have  held  in  substance  the 
evangelical  faith  that  modern  Missions  are 
scattering.  The  principles  active  abroad,  have 
not  shown  themselves  bed-ridden  at  home. 
Where  have  Ragged  Schools  found  their  self- 
denying  teachers  ? How  generally  in  the 
ridiculed  and  calumniated  men  and  women 
of  Evangelical  churches  sustaining  with  meek 
zeal  the  work  of  relieving  Pauperism  at 
home  and  the  work  of  relieving  Heathenism 
abroad,  undeterred  by  the  contempt  that  visits 
the  one  task,  unelated  by  the  flattery  that 
rewards  the  other  task.  They  have  elsewhere 


HAPPIXESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  49 


their  record,  and  look  elsewhere  for  their  re- 
compense. 

4.  But  you  would  economize  ? Missions 
are  costly  ? So  is  very  much  else  that  is  di- 
rectly necessary,  but  that  is  only  indirectly 
remunerative.  And,  in  your  thrift,  would  it 
be  true  economy  to  cut  up  your  level  streets 
and  your  broad  avenues  into  building-lots,  the 
land  that  these  roads  engross  being  so  emi- 
nently valuable  ; or,  would  you  seek  to  make 
more  useful  your  canals  and  your  navigable 
rivers  by  drawing  them  all  off  into  mill-races 
and  garden-troughs  ? No,  the  free  course  of 
the  highway,  be  it  by  land  or  by  water,  is 
worth  more  than  it  costs,  and  worth  far  more 
than  the  soil  it  covers  and  occupies.  And 
the  Gospel  is  such  a highway  from  heaven  to 
earth,  and  from  earth  to  heaven,  for  the  de- 
scent and  ascent  of  blessings.  That  Gospel 
sustained  at  home  and  sent  abroad,  is  worth 
far  more  than  all  of  expense  that  it  incurs.. 
Your  freedom,  your  education,  your  morals,. 


50 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOB  THE 


your  material  prosperity,  can  not  travel  over 
an  inclosed  Gospel,  more  than  could  your 
traffic  over  barred  roads,  and  your  floating 
commerce  over  obstructed  river-beds  or  along 
a waterless  gully.  And  they  who  would  sup- 
press the  Gospel  in  hopes  thus  to  swell  the 
purse,  may  find  that  the  God  of  the  Gospel 
does  not  need  their  patronage  quite  as  much 
as  they  would  suffer  from  the  withdrawal  of 
His. 

Missions ! Christ  himself  instituted  them, 
and  who  shall  decry  and  repudiate  them  ? 
The  love  of  Christ  necessitates  them.  Stifle 
that  love  in  its  aspirations  of  sympathy  for 
the  lost,  and  of  gratitude  to  the  Redeemer, 
you  leave  the  Church  of  the  Living  God  a 
corpse.  To  give  to  that  blessed  work  is  to 
trust  prophecy,  and  to  hasten  the  Millennial 
glory.  It  is  to  approach,  and  grow  meet  for, 
the  Heavenly  blessedness.  To  give  as  under 
God’s  eye,  and  as  into  Christ’s  own  torn 
palm,  and  at  Christ’s  explicit  call,  is  to  invest 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHU11CHE3.  51 


our  hopes,  and  our  recompense,  where  death 
can  not  scatter  the  treasure,  in  the  eternal 
and  imperishable  world. 

Yet  bear  with  us.  as  we  turn  to  the  object- 
or again,  whether  his  quarrel  be  with  the 
pulpit  at  home,  or  with  the  foreign  laborer, 
with  the  Missionary  prospects,  or  with  the 
Missionary  assessments. 

1.  And  some  may  say  perhaps : If  Christian- 
ity be  so  generous,  and  in  its  view  to  give  be 
indeed  much  more  blessed  than  to  receive, 
why  should  its  preachers  accept  the  contribu- 
tions of  others?  We  answer  to  this:  Do 
they  receive  more  than  they  give?  Is  it 
near  as  much  that  is  given  to  them,  as  is  given 
by  the  faithful  of  their  number  to  their  fel- 
low-man ? Is  it  nothing  that  they  give  their 
days,  and  often  their  wakeful  nights  to  ex- 
hausting toil,  and  consuming  care — that  they 
give  their  feelings  to  be  wounded  by  the  rude, 
the  frivolous,  and  the  penurious — that  they 


52 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


forego  competency,  and  worldly  distinction 
often,  and  often  large  affluence,  all  in  them- 
selves, goods  as  dear,  perhaps,  to  these  men, 
as  to  you,  and  had  these  men  chosen  it,  not 
more  accessible,  perhaps,  to  you  than  to  them. 
Has  not  the  Presidential  chair  of  our  country 
been  occupied  notoriously,  at  some  times,  by 
men  inferior  in  intellect,  and  attainments,  and 
moral  worth  to  Timothy  Dwight,  and  Archi- 
bald Alexander,  and  John  M.  Mason,  and 
Jonathan  Edwards  ? Aud  when  these  Chris- 
tian pastors  (the  most  of  them  living  since 
your  republic  opened  to  all  her  citizens  the 
path  of  civil  promotion),  forswore,  in  order 
to  pursue  the  work  of  benefiting  souls,  the 
hopes  of  worldly  aggrandizement,  turning 
their  talents  to  less  gainful,  and  less  applaud- 
ed pursuits — did  they  give  nothing  ? When 
the  Christian  Missionary  renounces  home,  and 
the  comforts  of  kindred,  and  civilization,  and 
political  freedom,  and  general  intelligence, 
for  a dwelling  amid  Pagan  desolations — bo  it 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES. 


5a 


among  Zulus,  Karens,  Cherokees,  Sandwich 
Islanders,  Chinese,  Hindoos,  or  Esquimaux — 
does  he  give  nothing? 

2.  But  missions  are  imperfect,  and  their 
counsels  are  often  divided.  W e are  not  aware 
that  it  is  before  perfect  churches  at  home,  and 
before  a nation  without  parties,  and  without 
partisanships,  that  we  are  called  to  meet  this 
complaint.  Nor  do  we  remember  where  it  is 
written  in  Scripture  that  primitive  Christians, 
to  correct  the  dissensions  between  Paul  and 
Barnabas,  withdrew  their  sympathies,  prayers, 
and  kindly  offices,  from  them  both.  “ As 
deceivers— yet  true,”  said  Paul  of  himself 
and  of  his  contemporary  fellow-missionaries. 
In  our  times,  as  in  the  earlier  days,  there 
have  been  defects,  and  unworthiness  among 
this  class.  But  now  we  may  say  of  them  in 
mass,  as  then  : they  have  been  true.  True 
to  their  missionary  charge  have  they  been ; 
true  to  the  interests  of  education,  and  freedom ; 
true  to  the  sanctity  of  the  household ; and' 


54 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


true  to  the  cause  of  worldly  science  ; for  have 
not  Ethnology,  and  Geography,  and  Philol- 
ogy,  owed  many  of  their  most  noticeable 
advances  to  the  energy,  and  fidelity,  of  Chris- 
tian Missionaries  ? True  have  they  been  to 
the  souls  they  failed  to  win,  and  true  to  those, 
their  converts,  whom  they  gathered  and  form- 
ed into  churches;  true  to  the  churches  at 
home,  who  sent  them  ; and  true  to  their  Mas- 
ter; and  His  own  Spirit  has  attested  their 
loyalty  by  blessing  their  testimony,  and 
crowning  their  prayers.  They  have  truly 
translated  God’s  true  oracles ; and  the  Maker 
and  Guardian  of  the  book,  has  stamped  His 
approval  on  their  toil.  Before  men  and  here 
indeed,  they  may  have  been  long,  and  may 
even  now  remain  unacknowledged,  or  ill- 
appreciated.  But  they  serve  a Captain  in 
whose  blessed  and  spiritual  campaigns  every 
corpse  of  the  lowly  private  soldier,  that  finds 
his  grave,  in  the  bottom  of  some  deep  trench, 
in  the  lowermost  layer  of  the  ghastly  bridge 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHUPvCIIES.  55 

over  which  his  successors  pass  to  the  victo- 
rious storming,  and  to  the  planting  of  their 
banners  on  the  outward  bulwarks,  is  to  be 
recovered,  and  shares  ultimately  in  the  glory 
and  joy  of  the  final  triumph. 

3.  The  successes  seem  long  delayed  and  the 
obstacles  portentous?  But  of  that  Captain 
and  Chief  Apostle  of  their  profession  there 
runs  an  old  edict  registered  in  the  councils  of 
eternity — “And  the  government  shall 
be  upon  His  shoulder.”  Not  merely  on 
His  baud ; though  the  pleasure  of  the  Lord 
shall  prosper  in  that  hand,  and  none  shall  be 
able  to  pluck  His  people  out  of  that  pierced 
palm.  Nor  merely  on  His  arm  ; though  His 
Church  shall  come  up  out  of  the  wilderness 
leaning  on  this  the  arm  of  her  Beloved,  and 
He  shall  in  that  arm  fold  and  carry  the  lambs 
of  His  flock,  as  the  Good  Shepherd,  gathering 
them  from  the  far  West  and  the  remote  East. 
But  upon  His  shoulder,  the  seat  of  strength, 
Iving  near  and  over  the  heart,  the  citadel  of 

1/  O * 


56 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


•the  life — the  shoulder,  the  symbol  of  highest 
. and  indomitable  energy.  For  He,  “ the  Won- 
derful, the  Counsellor,  the  Mighty  God,” 
shall  put  forth  all  His  own  proper  and  divine 
might  for  the  sustentation  of  His  own  cause 
and  kingdom.  As  the  shepherd  leaves  the 
ninety  and  nine  to  reclaim  the  one  straggler, 
and  bears  it  home  on  his  shoulder  rejoicing, 
so  shall  the  King  in  Zion  make  His  loving 
care  and  His  infinite  power  manifest  by  seek- 
ing out  the  distant,  and  briuging  back  the 
desolate  and  estranged  from  the  far  mountains 
of  Paganism.  He  is  the  Power  of  God  unto 
the  salvation  of  His  Church.  That  power  is 
the  invincible  hope  of  our  whole  undertaking. 
You  tell  us  of  the  changes,  treaties,  policies, 
and  edicts  of  earthly  government.  We  read 
of  “ the  government."  It  is  centralized  on  that 
one  Arm,  over  that  one  Heart.  And  as  the 
priest  put  of  old  his  shoulder  to  that  ark 
where  lay  the  governing  law  of  the  people, 
bearing  it  unharmed  above  the  sands  of  the 


HAPPINESS  OF  THE  CHURCHES.  57 


desert  and  the  dried  bed  of  Jordan,  even  so  has 
this  potent  High  Priest,  amid  the  desert  wander- 
ings of  His  people,  reserved  the  government 
to  come  in  all  its  chargeableness,  and  the  gov- 
ernment to  come  in  all  its  burdensomeness — 
the  law,  and  the  ark  holding  the  law — the 
Covenant  of  Missions  and  the  Ark  of  that 
Covenant — upon  His  own  stalwart  shoulder. 
This  is  our  trust,  and  this  is  all  our  desire. 
The  shifting  sands  of  party,  and  sect,  and 
school,  reach  not  that  Ark,  Covenant,  and 
Government.  The  currents  of  popular  agita- 
tion, and  of  transitory  fashion,  and  of  eccle- 
siastical strife,  shall  roll  harmless  far  below, 
or  be  dried  up  and  disappear  from  its  path- 
way, as  that  Ark  passes  victoriously  along, 
upborne  on  nis  Omnipotence  and  Faithful- 
ness, to  its  sure  and  universal  supremacy. 

4.  But  these  ever- recurring  assessments  for 
the  missionary  work  tease  and  weary  ? How 
shall  the  world  answer,  and  how  His  enemies 
face  Him,  when  the  accused  becomes  the  ac- 


58 


MISSIONS  NEEDED  FOR  THE 


cuser,  and  the  great  Missionary  confronts  us 
with  His  own  indictment  ? You  have  fretted 
at  His  claims.  But  what  claims  He  had  as 
upon  yourselves.  Not  merely  your  Redeemer 
and  Elder  Brother  by  the  incarnation,  but 
also  your  Divine  Maker,  and  each  day  your 
Preserver,  how  will  it  be  when  He  shall  ask 
account,  not  of  your  oivn,  but  of  His  own  ? 
You  breathed  His  air,  and  tilled  His  soil,  and 
were  using,  in  body  and  in  soul,  powers  of 
His,  loaned  for  your  occupancy,  now  will 
men  reply,  when  Christ  shall  impeach  them 
for  neglecting  their  own  souls,  and  neglecting 
their  brethren,  and  neglecting  the  duty  en- 
joined by  their  own  consciences  and  in  His 
Scriptures  ? How  meet  His  indictment  of 
them  for  indignities  heaped  on  Himself,  in 
His  own  direct,  and  frequent,  and  solemn,  and 
personal  mission  to  their  own  hearts,  as  He 
knocked  at  the  door  and  was  denied  admit- 
tance ? He  shall  ask  their  reasons,  then,  for 
scorn  of  that  blessed  Book,  dank  and  sodden 


happiness  of  the  churches.  59 

with  Ilis  atoning  blood — for  waste  of  that 
Sabbath  instituted  by  Him,  claimed  by  Him, 
due  to  Him,  but  embezzled  from  Him.  He 
shall  impeach  them  for  receiving  much  and 
rendering  nought — for  misemploying  Time 
and  neglecting  Eternity— for  wronging  Earth 
and  forfeiting  Paradise —while  providences, 
warnings,  convictions,  sanctuaries,  pulpits, 
missions,  and  converts  from  heathenism,  all 
shall  be  cited  as  witnesses  on  God’s  side, 
against  the  unfaithful  steward  compelled  to 
unearth  and  confront  the  buried  talent.  To 
this  impeachment  how  shall  we  plead  ? Who, 
as  Balaam  once  mournfully  asked,  shall  live 
when  God  doeth  this  ? Who  ? They  who 
have  been  Christ’s  true  servants,  whether  at 
home  or  abroad.  They  shall  live.  None 
else.  Are  you  one  of  them  ? 


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